A new issue brief provides policy reforms to improve health outcomes in Oklahoma. These reforms include increasing primary care providers, investing in the prevention of public health epidemics, and expanding access to affordable health insurance.
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David Blatt
August 19, 2013 // Updated: August 19, 2013
After three straight years of steep drops, the total number of state government employees edged up in FY 2013. However, the number of state workers staffing correctional facilities, inspecting restaurant and nursing homes, serving victims of abuse and neglect, and…
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Camille Landry is a writer, activist, and advocate for social justice who lives in Oklahoma City. This is the fifth in Camille’s series, “Neglected Oklahoma”, focused on Oklahomans who find themselves in a position where the basic necessities of life…
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August 14, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This post was written by OK Policy volunteer Zoraya Hightower. Zoraya completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Tulsa, and this fall she will begin a Master of Environmental Management program at Yale.
Trash is a surprisingly controversial topic.…
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Gene Perry
August 13, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This post originally ran on our blog this past January
Like most state tax systems, Oklahoma takes a much larger share from middle- and low-income families than from wealthy families, according to the fourth edition of “Who Pays? A Distributional…
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David Blatt
August 12, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Beginning in 2014, the American health care landscape will be transformed in many ways as the final provisions of the Affordable Care Act take effect. The greatest changes will affect the market for individual health insurance. Under the ACA, insurance…
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